HOUSTON -- While we digest the status of Mike Vick with his battered ribs and wonder if he'll ever play a full season of football again (he's played exactly one 16-game regular season), let's get updated on one team that's been very quiet in the first month of summer camp.
There are the staunch supporters of Adrien Broner, the fans and pundits who believe the 22-year-old super featherweight is the next big thing. They point to his unmistakable power, blurring speed and bubbling charisma to support the argument that Broner (23-0) is next in line for Floyd Mayweather's throne.
FX Network's "American Horror Story" and AMC's "Mad Men" landed the most Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with 17 apiece. "Downton Abbey," from PBS had 16 nods.
HBO is renewing "Real Time with Bill Maher" for two more years.
OTTAWA -- The most stunning moment of every NHL All-Star weekend occurs four minutes into the game when, after the overdose on the blaring player introductions and music from the name-brand singers, an eerie pall, broken only by the sound of blades scraping on ice, engulfs the arena.
Over the next two days, I'll be spotlighting some of the best and brightest content recently arrived on home video for the holiday season. I have divided it into a few rough categories.
The Emmys will be Sunday night at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, and AMC, HBO and Showtime have nabbed a huge chunk of the major nods this year. This yet again sparks the question that has been looming around the industry for years: Is the quality of programming from the major broadcast networks on the decline?
The gap between potential and proven can be measured by Jeff Lacy.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- We in boxing bellyache all the time about fighters who duck dangerous opponents, refuse to take chances and turn prizefights into glorified wrestling matches. Carl Froch, the reigning WBC super middleweight champion, is none of those things -- yet he's not very popular.
Premium cable network HBO soft-launched HBO Connect on Tuesday, a new "second screen" experience that aims to augment the social experience surrounding shows like "True Blood," "Game of Thrones" and "Entourage."
Every Tuesday I take my daughter for skating lessons and feel a chill that cannot entirely be explained by the refrigerated air of our suburban rink. When I join her on the ice, I feel six inches taller, which is four inches more than the CCMs on my feet can account for. Putting on hockey skates for the first time in years, I'm learning a few skating lessons of my own, which I wouldn't have thought possible after a decade as a hockey exile.
NASA and HBO on Thursday became two of the latest organizations seeking to capitalize on the growing popularity of mobile check-in apps.
The Entourage star directs the new documentary Teenage Paparazzo, premiering tonight on HBO
If you believe what the folks at Facebook have been telling the press, there's a lot in the new movie, "The Social Network" that's just plain fiction -- especially about the company's co-creator and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter, has acknowledged he aimed for "fidelity." But the fidelity was to "storytelling," not to truth.The movie itself ends with a disclaimer that some material in it is invented -- as in "not true." There clearly are specific scenes that didn't happen in real life and some of them -- like Zuckerberg having sex in a bathroom with an underage woman -- are not kind. Overall, by most accounts, he comes across as a jerk.
A bevy of stars will take part in a one-hour television special Friday night to raise funds for cancer research.
For the last nine decades, Madison Square Garden has earned the label of the Mecca of Boxing. Home to historic fights like Joe Louis-Rocky Marciano, Emile Griffith-Benny Paret and Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier, the Garden has been the destination for fighters and promoters wishing to make a name for themselves in New York City.
Ever see those late night ads on TV searching for money to support children in Africa?
Glee, Modern Family, Mad Men and 30 Rock will vie for TV's top honor
Which big screen celeb portrayed the nation's Commander-in-Chief best?
The 14th annual American Black Film Festival wrapped up Sunday, with a community showing of its centerpiece film, "Stomp the Yard: Homecoming."
With the Stanley Cup Final between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Chicago Blackhawks to begin this weekend, HBO has added more playdates for its hour-long documentary Broad Street Bullies, a look at the legendary Flyers' Stanley Cup championship teams of the 1970s. Dates include Tuesday May 25 (8:00 p.m.), Thursday. May 27 (7:00 p.m.), Saturday May 29 (11:00 a.m.) and Tuesday June 1 (7:00 p.m.). All times are ET.
Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric and Brian Williams will host the Sept. 10 event
NEW YORK -- Those who love boxing are the ones hurting it the most. It's true. Just ask them.
Bryan Greenberg and Victor Rasuk discuss their new HBO show, premiering Sunday, and talk about their famous costar - N.Y.C.!
If left up to audiences, the trend of the undead will never die.
It's morning at Georgetown College in Kentucky. An irresistible force of men in white jerseys smashes into an immovable object of men in black ones.
Forget about R.Patz and Stephen Moyer: There's a new crop of vampires getting pulses racing!
What a muddled mess the heavyweight division has become. Four recognized titles. Five, if you count Ring Magazine. Champions. Champions in Recess. Champions Emeritus. Sanctioning bodies manipulating their rankings (have you seen WBA No. 1 contender John Ruiz recently?) just to squeeze out a few extra dollars. And the only cost is the integrity of the sport.
What did you make of the matches on HBO? And how much should we read into the results? One never knows how hard the players are playing, does one? -- Barry, Arizona
For about four years in my mid-twenties, I dated and lived with a guy who was as wrong for me as a double-breasted blazer. He certainly wasn't the only guy I ever got involved with who wasn't Mr. Right, but he's only one I stayed with about three years longer than I should have.
Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder are among the performers tipped to appear
Pitting the old-schoolers Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt against Twilight newbie Robert Pattinson, who wins more hearts?
"Mad Men" and "Damages" found themselves on top when the nominations for the 60th Annual Primetime Emmys came out Thursday morning -- but, again, there was no love for HBO's "The Wire."
Can HBO's drama True Blood reinvent the vampire story? We only wish that we could B-positive
There is a 10-foot SAINTS EDGE sign unfurled on the second floor of the Conrad Indianapolis Hotel -- the Saints' headquarters for Week 1 of the NFL season after the team was forced to relocate because of Hurricane Gustav. That's coach Sean Payton's theme for the year; everything the Saints do, they're doing to get an edge on the competition this year. And in a strange, it-can-only-happen-in-sports kind of way, migrating 820 miles north to make final preparations for the season might actually give the Saints an advantage heading into Sunday's season-opener with the visiting Bucs.
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Black in America's spoken word poet, Jon Goode, tells it like it is.
An HBO exec tells PEOPLE a follow-up film is "a likely possibility"
Each week, SI.com's Richard Deitsch reports on newsmakers from the world of TV, radio and the Web.
Today's movies have never seemed less interested in figuring out what women want. That's hardly surprising when -- for the summer months at least -- they've practically written off the entire adult population.
He brought us baseball in the bush leagues (Bull Durham), the hustle of the blacktop (White Man Can't Jump), the thin line between purgatory and redemption in golf (Tin Cup) and a one-name diamond demon (Cobb). Now, writer-director Ron Shelton is shining his dramatic light on the shadow of steroids.
HBO is betting that Mexican soap fans will go for a gritty, and expensive, drama about women in prison
Matt Blank couldn't help himself. The CEO of Showtime Networks recently hosted a private screening of "Secret Diaries of a Call Girl." The series, which debuts on the cable channel on June 16, is about a high-priced prostitute - played by Billie Piper - who takes viewers behind the scenes of her profession. She even shares tips on how she pleases her well-heeled clients.
Benjamin Wallen, self-proclaimed biggest fan of HBO's "The Wire," thought it was well worth a $300 flight home to watch the highly anticipated series finale of the acclaimed crime drama with his best friends -- and fellow series diehards -- Sunday night.
Welcome to a season of wonderful--wonderful colors, breathtaking gowns, and hemlines for every figure and fantasy. Actress Melissa George, who stars in the new HBO drama "In Treatment," models the season's biggest trends.
Nominees for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, California:
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In the end, it was Tony Soprano, Carmela, Meadow, A.J. - and Journey.
Chris Albrecht, chairman and chief executive of HBO, has agreed to step down from his position, parent company Time Warner announced Wednesday.
HBO's Chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht has been granted a leave of absence from his duties Time Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons announced in a release Tuesday.
The creator of Entourage, the HBO show about a movie star and his pals, recently announced his next series for the network, this one about a hedge fund trader and his pals. Talk about a spoiler: Wh...
Saving the world from assorted terrorists paid off for the cast of "24" at Sunday night's Primetime Emmy Awards.
Nominees in major categories for the 58th annual Primetime Emmy Awards announced Thursday by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:
The Army surgeon general is warning that the HBO documentary "Baghdad ER" is so graphic that military personnel watching it could experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Forgive the bad pun, but global warming has become a hot topic in the mass media.
As HBO's hit drama "The Sopranos" returns to prime time, several supporting actors want to return to the negotiating table, according to a report Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - You may not have heard about this. But a little show about a family living in the New Jersey suburbs returns on Sunday night.
Here are the motion picture and television nominees for the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards announced Tuesday. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is scheduled to present the awards on January 16 in Beverly Hills, California.
With the success of "The Sopranos" and "Sex in the City", HBO has long been the emperor of original programming on cable television.
HBO has decided to give "The Sopranos" a new lease on life in a deal that extends the hit series by another year with eight extra episodes, the cable channel said Friday.
After the hit series "Friends," Lisa Kudrow has to sweat the TV business.
Paul Newman could have long since rested on his laurels.
Here is the list of winners at Sunday's 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:
Its ads say "It's not TV, it's HBO," but the cable network certainly dominated television's top awards Sunday night.
So this is the year "The Sopranos" finally wins its Emmy, right?
Juliette Lewis has movie stardom and a burgeoning career as a rock musician, but what she really wants is to find out what happened to her little dog, Chowie.
Liv Tyler had a front-row seat for the start of the "Bennifer" craze while she and Ben Affleck were filming "Jersey Girl" -- and couldn't believe her eyes.
In "Requiem for a Nun," William Faulkner made the famous observation, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
As the fifth and last season of The Sopranos gets under way on March 7, the pressure is on at Home Box Office. Its other franchise series, Sex and the City, began its final run in January, raising ...
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The widespread popularity of HBO's "The Sopranos" has inspired ancillary products from a line of mafia-inspired clothing (silk shirts are big) to a cookbook.
This month HBO is launching a line of gourmet-food products based on its hit mob drama The Sopranos. Named after Artie Bucco, the owner and chef of the show's Nuovo Vesuvio restaurant, the products...
HBO's popular mobster saga may be in the off-season, but that hasn't kept a handful of fans from spending Sunday evenings in the home of their favorite crime family. The 5,000-square-foot colonial ...
It's been another embarrassing summer for broadcast television--and this time it's not because of slipping ratings. When the six networks unveiled their 38 new shows in May, onlookers were appalled...
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